Xuzong Chen

Frequency-stabilized diode laser at 780 nm with a continuously locked time over 100 h

Two extended-cavity diode lasers at 780 nm which are longtime frequency-stabilized to Rb87 saturated absorption signals are reported. A high-performance frequency-locking circuit module using a first-harmonic detection technique is designed and achieved. Two lasers are continuously frequency-stabilized for over 100 h in conventional laboratory condition. The Allan standard deviation of either laser is estimated to be 1.3×10 -11 at an integration time of 25 s. The system environment temperature drift is demonstrated to be the main factor affecting long-term stability of the stabilized lasers based on our correlation study between beat frequency and system environment temperature.

Imprinting Light Phase on Matter Wave Gratings in Superradiance Scattering

Superradiance scattering from a Bose-Einstein condensate is studied with a two-frequency pump- ing beam. We demonstrate the possibility of fully tuning the backward mode population as a function of the locked initial relative phase between the two frequency components of the pump- ing beam. This result comes from an imprinting of this initial relative phase on two matter wave gratings, formed by the forward mode or backward mode condensate plus the condensate at rest, so that cooperative scattering is affected. A numerical simulation using a semiclassical model agrees with our observations.

Atomic spatial coherence with spontaneous emission in a strong-coupling cavity

The role of spontaneous emission in the interaction between a two-level atom and a pumped microcavity in the strong-coupling regime is discussed. In particular, using a quantum Monte Carlo simulation, we investigate atomic spatial coherence. It is found that atomic spontaneous emission destroys the coherence between neighboring lattice sites, while cavity decay does not. Furthermore, our computation of the spatial coherence function shows that the in-site locality is little affected by the cavity decay but greatly depends on the cavity pump amplitude.

Detecting quantum coherence of Bose gases in optical lattices by scattering light intensity in cavity

We propose a new method of detecting quantum coherence of a Bose gas trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice by measuring the light intensity from Raman scattering in cavity. After pump and displacement process, the intensity or amplitude of scattering light is different for different quantum states of a Bose gas, such as superfluid and Mott-Insulator states. This method can also be useful to detect quantum states of atoms with two components in an optical lattice.

Roughness with a finite correlation length in a microtrap

We analyze the effects of roughness in the magnitude of the magnetic field produced by a current carrying microwire, which is caused by the geometric fluctuation of the edge of the wire. The relation between the fluctuation of the trapping potential and the height the atom trap lies above the wire is very well consistent with the experimental data when the colored noise with a finite correlation length is considered. On this basis, we generate the random potential and get the density distribution of the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) atoms by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which coincides well with the experimental image, especially in the number of fragmentations. The results help us further understand the nature of the fluctuation and predict its possible application in the precise measurement.